An apology for the true Christian divinity, being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers

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mus ti a member of

tholocly, and then

That grace is necessar to malle ne a tria Christianes thin k ill notio qu0stioned sine it . by grace e re Saved, ' Eph. i. S. It is the grae o God that teuchethus to den ungodlineses, and the lusis of this orld, and tolive odi and righteousty Tit. i. i. ea, ChristisatthexpreSSty, That without hi in e can do nothing, Jolin XV. 5 and the way hereb Christ helpelli, assisteth, and worketh ith us is by his grace liene he aith to Paul, My graue is sufficioni ior thee. V A Christian without graue is indoedis Christian, ut an hypocrite, and a false

ter are colante among the mos eminent member of thebody. ut ii man cani a member unies he receive Osthe virtve lite and nourishment of the head io the member that receive not this lite an nourishment deca and

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wither, and then are cutiss. And that e very true member doth thus receive nourishmon and lis trona the head thea se Osti e re ly affirmeth, Eph. v. 6 Froni hom

whole is no Otho than the grace of God and thereioreth aposti in the sanie hapter Ver. 7, Salth, But unio every one o uti givei grace accordinito the measure i

and disyin o tho od os Christ Arid certaini thenno an destitute os graue is fit so this ork, s in thalal that Christ givos are so qualisled and thes that are not

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let hi in do illas of the abilit whiel God givsth; that Godin ali hings may be glorifi0d through Jesus Christi no

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menti edificationi religi On Whethor in hooSin ulti tari in the

Franciscus Lambertus venionensis in his book concernit Prophecy. Learning Tongue and the Spiritis Prophecy. rgent.

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the Spiritis God. V XVII. gainst his absolute necessit o grace theyobj0et That ii ut minister had the Savin grace o God,

But his objectior is uili pon a false hypothesiS, purei denised by S and we have in the tormer propo-

Sition concerning ei Severane atready refute it. Sestondly It may be objected torus, That Sinee we affirmiliat ver man hath a menSure os true an SaVin grace, there need no singula qualification eithemto a Christian or minister ior Seein every an ath hi grace, then noman nee is sorbear tot a minister for antii grace. Panswer, e have above hown that there i necessaryto the mal in a ministor a specia and partieular cali rom

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OF ΤΗΕ MINISTRY. 293 fruit os ait amplos conversation and of justi eo holiness, patience, and temperan o. hi h the reposti requires res necessar in a tria Christi an his hos anil minister. Thirclly Thoy obj0ct tho ex ample of the alse prophetS, Ona 3 of tho Pharis os, and of JudaS. But First os to the falso propheis, thoro an nothingio A W mores Oolisti and ridiculo is ins in moestuso aliore 'ore salso propheis reali falso, ithout tho gracemi God thor fore graeo A no necessar to a true Christian minister. Indosed ii tho h ad prouod that tria prophot want sed his The salso

figurativo.

ospes must

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294 PROPOSITION A. may offer u spiritu a sacrifices acceptabi tomo by The minis Josus Christ V 1 set ii 5. A to Judas, the spasoni his

tr of the .

discipies of ministru a not holi evangelieat, as ping beiore tho

fore the work a finished, and whilo Chris himsoli an his disci-

legat than stitutions and there ore his commission, A et a that

evangelis Ri. . .

at that

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astor ardes more cloarly RPPear.

tho tomptations oscit, hy folio in the Lord, and walhingin his light, and waitin dati ior is lom and nowledge immediatet si oui the revolation heroos and so layothi p

learning a maia an et inStruet, euch, and admoniali in hie is duo suason, and testis for God rom a certain OXl Orion P. Coatruo

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tio tho DTRVers of the poplewero in tho Latin

XIX. ut lotis examine his litorature, hiel thpymahe o necessar to the ein o a minister; as in thofirst placo the knowledge of the longues, at eas the Latin. Gree k, and Hebrew. The reasonis his is That the mayrea the scripture, hicli is theirini rute, in the originallangvages, and therob be the more capable to commentupor it an interpret it, c. That also hi et mado his knowl0dge e the more riged by the primitive Protestants, was indeo the dari barbarit that was ver homori in the centurios immediat et precedin the reformation the nowlodge of the longuos botri abolit that time, untii it was even thon restored by Erasinu and Somo others, almos los and extinet. And this barbarit wasso much the more abominablo that the wholo orship and prayers of theseopte ere in the Latin longue and amorigilia vastis umber os priosis, monk and triRI S, Caree oneo a thousandi riderStood his breviary, o that mas Whi lihe dati read and repented the Scripture being, nolint tot heseoplo, but to the greater parti the clergy, even a tolli literat nowledge oscit, sin ealed book. I Shali notat ali discommon the goa that the 1 st rosormors ad against this Babylonisii dari noss, nor thei Piou endea-Vour to translato the hol scripturos Pilo rub bellove, accordiri to their nowlodgo that tho di i it candidly and thereiore t answer tho usi destres of thos thati siro

tions by these common langvagos, and other of thalain i, We udgo it necessar and commendabi that thoro epublio solioolcior the ea hin and instructing Suelibouth, as are inclinable thereunto in tho langvagos Arad although that papa ignorane dosorve justi tote abhor-